Havas London announces the appointment of Vicki Maguire as its new Chief Creative Officer. She joins the King’s Cross-based creative agency following 10 years at Grey London, where she held the same role, and will start in January 2020. Maguire is one of the most high-profile and awarded creative leaders working in the industry today. […]
OLIVER has bolstered its creative offering with the arrival of new global chief creative officer, Rod Sobral. He will be responsible for the agency’s creative output across global clients. Rod will report to Simon Martin, founder and CEO of OLIVER, and will oversee all of the agency’s global brands, including Unilever. He has been tasked […]
Saatchi & Saatchi London has hired Guillermo Vega, the former ECD of 72andSunny New York, as its Chief Creative Officer. Joining on October 1, Vega will lead the agency’s creative department and build on its existing creative success. His appointment completes the Saatchi & Saatchi London management team, alongside Sam Hawkey (Chief Operating Officer), Richard […]
Saatchi & Saatchi New York announced the appointment of Taras Wayner as Chief Creative Officer, effective September 1st. Wayner will oversee all creative communications across the agency’s client roster, which includes Walmart, Procter & Gamble, USAA and NDSS, and will play a key role in further developing the agency’s creative talent. “The moment I met […]
Wunderman is appointing former SapientRazorfish creative leader Daniel Bonner as its new global chief creative officer effective March 5. Bonner, who left his post of global creative chief at SapientRazorfish last summer, is succeeding Lincoln Bjorkman. A Wunderman spokeswoman said that Bjorkman is leaving to explore new opportunities and is helping Bonner make a smooth transition to […]
VML has announced the promotion of Jason Xenopoulos to global chief vision officer and chief creative officer of VML EMEA. As chief vision officer, Xenopoulos will drive VML’s long-term vision and global positioning across VML’s global network, which spans 33 offices in 15 countries across six continents. As chief creative officer, EMEA, Xenopoulos will work […]
LIDA has appointed Trefor Thomas, Executive Creative Director of SapientNitro, as its Chief Creative Officer (CCO) – a newly created role. Thomas joins the senior management line-up alongside Matthew Heath (Chairman), Victoria Fox (CEO), Jonathan Goodman (Managing Director) Simon Calvert (Chief Strategy Officer). He will sit on the LIDA management board. Starting in June 2016, […]
Leo Burnett announces the appointment of Chaka Sobhani to the role of chief creative officer. Chaka joins Leo Burnett London from Mother. Chaka brings with her 20 years of experience from both the Advertising and Broadcast industries, notably setting up ITV Creative and becoming their first creative director. She started her career as a comedy […]
Ogilvy & Mather London has appointed Mick Mahoney, the former executive creative director at Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R, as its chief creative officer. He replaces Gerry Human. Mahoney will lead O&M’s UK creative department, working with clients including Pizza Hut, the government and BP. He will report to the chief executive, Charlie Rudd. Before working […]
Blippar has hired the former Yahoo senior executive Glen Drury to the role of Chief Commercial Officer EMEA, as the visual search and augmented reality company repositions as a digital media platform. Drury is the ex Regional Vice President for Northern Europe at Yahoo and former Vice President of Mobile Advertising at Opera Mediaworks. Drury […]